This weekend has been a clear picture of contradictions (confusion?) in my life. That probably sounds sort of dramatic… perhaps it is more like a clear picture of the different sides of my life that I’m trying to mesh/balance.
Friday night was all about food, wine and late night jam sessions/sing-alongs in the backyard. One of my friends sells Tastefully Simple products, so I hosted a party and had a few girlfriends over (and got $50 of free products - woot!). TS parties are a blast, because basically all you do is sit around, sample yummy dips/sauces/drinks/breads/desserts, drink wine and have fun with friends. After the TS demonstration, we continued the party, which evolved into a quick jam session with Ryan and some musician friends, and then led us to a late-night backyard acoustic sing-along. In a nutshell, it was a blast.
Fast-forward to Saturday morning (okay, it was 1 p.m., but it *felt* like morning, haha…) to a birthday party for a 1-year-old (his mom is friends with my sister, and she also babysits him quite often… if you don’t know Linny, she’s pretty much a baby whisperer or something - she really has a way with babies/children). I actually tried to bail on the party, but Linny guilt-tripped me into it so I went. I’m glad I did, though, because it was pretty fun. It was cute seeing the baby open his presents/eat cake/do cute baby things, and it was fun to observe a room full of young, cool parents with their children. Being surrounded by people like that always gives me a little bit of baby fever… I find myself thinking ‘Hey, they’re young, cool, and seem to have it all together - maybe I could do that too?’
***Side note on the gift I brought to the party*** Um… if you buy books in the $1 section at Target, open it and make sure it’s legit. I picked up a few books, one called “Hello, Ladybird” or something (which is kinda weird anyway, because it’s a lady bug - not sure what was up with that), and we didn’t realize until the baby had opened the book that the cover was printed upside down (so that you had to flip the book over when you open it in order to read this)… I actually considered quietly slipping it into my purse to dispose of it later, but then thought that they might start to wonder where the weird “ladybird” book went, LOL.
I feel like I find these parallels often in my life… How do I reconcile the late-night-jam-session-loving side with my omg-1-year-old-bdays-are-so-fun-maybe-I-could-do-this side? I mean, I don’t think we will be able to have people over playing music (ahem, drums?!) till late into the night with a baby… but surely there’s some way to meet in the middle, right? Maybe we could have earlier/quieter get-togethers and possibly involve the baby once he/she is old enough? I don’t see how that could be a problem? I can honestly see how these things can come together - I guess you just make certain changes when you have children. I can have a baby and maintain my street cred, right?
Speaking of street cred, we’re going to the Vampire Weekend show tomorrow - sooooo excited! Happy Easter, everyone!
xoxo
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